Locksmith in St. Francis, WI

A locksmith in St. Francis, at your door

If you need a locksmith in St. Francis, we come to the house, the apartment, or the parking spot with everything in the vehicle. Getting you back inside a house or a car usually takes a few minutes once we are there, and a rekey or a new car key takes 15 to 60 minutes. St. Francis is about 5 miles south of downtown Milwaukee, between the Bay View neighborhood and Cudahy, and we work there day and night.

A small city on Lake Michigan

St. Francis is one of the smallest cities in Milwaukee County: about 9,200 people on roughly 2.6 square miles along Lake Michigan. It takes its name from St. Francis Seminary, founded here in 1845, and the Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi settled nearby in the same century. The area was once part of the Town of Lake. When Milwaukee was annexing most of that town, residents here voted in July 1951 to become their own city, and they did.

Being small does not make the lock calls small. A lockout in St. Francis is the same job as anywhere else, and so is a house that changed owners, a rental that changed tenants, or a key lost on the lakefront path.

Keys lost near the airport

Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport sits right along one side of St. Francis, and that brings a situation common near any airport: someone lands, walks to the car, and the only key is gone, left in a bag, a hotel, or another city. A car with no key at all needs a new key made from scratch. We open the car, cut the key by code or from the lock, and program it on the spot, after checking the title or registration. All keys lost starts at $119, and smart keys cost more (lost car keys).

If you already know the key is gone before you fly home, write to us from the trip. Send the year, make, and model, and we can bring the right key blank and be ready at the car.

Homes, apartments, and new owners

St. Francis has a mix of single-family homes, duplexes, and apartment buildings, and every sale or move-out leaves keys in other hands. Rekeying is the standard answer: we change the inside of the lock, so your old hardware stays on the door and only the new keys work. A first lock rekey starts at $59, and each additional lock on the same visit starts at $20 (rekeying).

For landlords with several units, we can key each apartment differently and give the owner a master key, and add a lock on a shared laundry or storage room (master key systems). Mailbox locks in apartment entryways are part of the same visit when the box belongs to the building (mailbox locks).

Parks, paths, and the lakefront

St. Francis keeps 63 acres of public parkland, and 23 acres of it face Lake Michigan, with access to the county's Oak Leaf Trail. Walkers, runners, and cyclists leave cars at the lakefront and come back to find the keys locked inside or dropped somewhere on the path. For a car lockout, tell us where you parked, and we open the car. A car lockout starts at $69 (car lockout).

Offices, churches, and campuses

Buildings with many doors and many people, such as offices, church halls, and campus buildings, need control over who has which key. We rekey after staff changes, install commercial-grade cylinders, and set up keying so a manager carries one key and each group opens only its own rooms. Door closers that slam or do not latch and exit devices on emergency doors are part of the same work (door closers).

Around St. Francis

St. Francis shares its north edge with the city of Milwaukee and its south edge with Cudahy, and South Milwaukee is a short drive further down the lakeshore. We cover all of them, and the prices are the same in each.